Quotes About Citizenship

Up until the point that you're a citizen, we wanna continue to make sure we understand who you are and why you're here.

I just wanna write about what I am living as a citizen. That's all.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

I can't imagine anybody not wanting to make sure that noncitizens don't dilute legitimate U.S. citizens' vote.

Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.

There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America.

If you don't pay your taxes and you don't answer the warrant and you don't go to court, eventually someone will pull a gun. Eventually someone with a gun will show up. I want everything the government does to be done, I just want it to be done voluntarily.

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.

Indeed, the Roman laws allowed no person to be carried to the wars but he that was in the soldiers' roll.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are as much every U.S. citizen's wars as they are the veterans' wars. If we don't assume that civilians have just as much ownership and the moral responsibilities that we have as a nation when we embark on something like that, then we're in a very bad situation.

While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

The MAVNI program allows citizenship to be granted to any enlistee who serves one day of wartime service.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'

I suggest that ten thousand Negroes march on Washington, D.C., the capital of the Nation, with the slogan, 'We loyal Negro American citizens demand the right to work and fight for our country.'

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.

Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.

Is it any great wonder', asked the writer, 'that an Indian Muslim no longer feels secure in secular India? He feels discriminated against. He feels a second-class citizen.

WE'VE PLACED a lot of emphasis in this country on the idea of people's rights. That's how it should be, but it makes no sense to talk about rights without also talking about responsibilities. Rights have to come from somewhere, and they come from the community. In return, all of us have a responsibility to the community. Some people call this the "communitarian" movement, but I call it common sense. This

jamerican- the word applies mostly to those from jamaica who has become domiciled in america, and have taken on the american influence whether they are permanent residents or citizens. It also applies to americans who have taken on jamaican domicile and citizenship. Those in canada are called-ja'cans- the cans meaning canada.

In the words of one scholar, "by virtue of Israel's definition of itself as a Jewish state and the state's exclusionary policies and laws, what was conferred on Palestinians was in effect second-class citizenship." Most significantly, the martial regime under which the Palestinians lived granted the Israeli military near-unlimited authority to control the minutiae of their lives.57